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Description & Citation--Study No. 4574 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 4574 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04574 |
| Title: | National Violent Death Reporting System, 2004 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control |
| Series: | National Violent Death Reporting System Series |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control |
| Bibliographic Citation: | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. NATIONAL VIOLENT DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM, 2004 [Computer file]. Compiled by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. 2006. ICPSR04574-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2006-12-15. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) collects data on violent deaths, i.e., suicides, homicides, and legal intervention, including terrorism-related incidents. The system also includes some other types of deaths, namely deaths due to undetermined intent and unintentional deaths due to firearms. One of the main reasons for including these types of deaths is that there is overlap in how these deaths are coded. For example, a particular poisoning case may be classified as an undetermined death in one state, but in a neighboring state, the same case may be coded as a suicide or an unintentional poisoning. NVDRS is an incident-based system that collects data from different data sources, including death certificates, coroner and medical examiner records, police reports, crime lab data, and child fatality review records. The system collects data on a violent incident, the deaths belonging to that incident, the injury mechanisms leading to death, and the alleged perpetrators (suspects) involved in the violent incident. The relationship of the victim to the suspect is also recorded, as are the relationships of each person to the injury mechanisms included. State health departments participating in NVDRS typically identify relevant violent deaths as their death certificates are filed and then establish the details of the cases from medical examiner, coroner, and law enforcement records. Data collection is ongoing as the source documents from the different data providers become available at different times and intervals. The data represent the violent incidents that occurred between January and December of that data year as submitted by the participating states. |
| Subject Term(s): | crime, death, homicide, victims, violent crime |
| Smallest Geographic Unit: | state |
| Geographic Coverage: | Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, United States, Virginia, Wisconsin |
| Time Period: | 2004 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | January 2004 - May 2006 |
| Universe: | The 2004 data year includes information from 13 states (Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin). These states combined accounted for 23.4 percent of the 2003 United States population, but 22.7 percent of the suicides and 21.9 percent of the homicides in the United States in 2002. |
| Data Type: | administrative records data |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | death certificates |
| coroner/medical examiner records | |
| police records | |
| crime lab data | |
| data abstractor input | |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 2006-12-15 |
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